On the internet, searching for ants leads to new paths to engage with science
In the recent paper “No matter where you are, Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) get attention when it is warm” published in Myrmecological News, Queiroz et al....
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Chemistry in biotic interactions: The many facets of cuticular hydrocarbons
Many insects coat their body surfaces with cuticular hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, etc. with various chain lengths), which act as desiccation resistance and communication tool. Florian...
In honor of Walter W. Kempf on the centenary of his birth in 1920
The year 2020 marked the centenary of the birth of the German-Brazilian myrmecologist, Dr. Frei Walter Wolfgang Franz Kempf, O.F.M., (1920-1976), whose remarkable research contributed...
The wonderful wisdom of ants
Philip Bunting 2020, Scholastic Australia, 32 pages, ISBN 9781743834084Published in Dutch by Uitgeverij Condor as ‘De wereldse wijsheid van de mier’Published in English by Scholastic...
Desert ant heat survival guide
Natalia de Souza Araujo is a postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where she uses bioinformatics and molecular biology to answer exciting evolutionary questions....
Top 10 Blog Posts 2020
Myrmecological News Blog and its editorial team celebrate the end of this very difficult year 2020 with a Top 10 Blog Posts Special and use...
Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters
Kronauer D. 2020 Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters. – Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 384 pp; ISBN 978-0674241558, EU € 58.50 A Book...
Viruses of ants – diversity and impact
In the review article by Baty et al. (2020) “Viruses and their effects in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological News, the authors conduct a...
Altered embryogenesis allows developmental integration of the endosymbiont Blochmannia into its ant hosts
In the recently published article “Origin and elaboration of a major evolutionary transition in individuality” in Nature, A. Matteen Rafiqi, Arjuna Rajakumar, and Ehab Abouheif...
Women in Science? Parents in Science? Minorities in Science? “So what”?
In the recent paper “Myrmecology, Gender, and Geography: changing demographics of a research community over thirty years” published in Myrmecological News, Andrea Lucky and colleagues...
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